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Andy Warhol
Life Time
6 August 1928 - 22 February 1987
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Andy Warhol, whose real name is Andrew Warhol, was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. His parents were Rusyn immigrants from the village of Mikova, which at that time was in Austria-Hungary, and now is located in the Stropkov district of North-Eastern Slovakia. They moved to America before they had three children. At the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Andy studied commercial art. After graduating from this school in 1949, he moved to New York. There, his career
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Andy Warhol, whose real name is Andrew Warhol, was born on August 6, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. His parents were Rusyn immigrants from the village of Mikova, which at that time was in Austria-Hungary, and now is located in the Stropkov district of North-Eastern Slovakia. They moved to America before they had three children.
At the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Andy studied commercial art. After graduating from this school in 1949, he moved to New York. There, his career began with work as an illustrator in various magazines, as well as he was engaged in the design of windows, the manufacture of postcards and posters. But the main success brought the artist his advertising graphic works. Warhol's first exhibition was held in 1952 in New York, and four years later he was awarded the prize "Club of Art Editors".
In the early sixties, Andy began making films. They were mostly silent films. In just five years he created several hundred films. In addition to them, the result of Warhol’s work were three-minute screen tests, short films, work with a certain plot. Gradually, he moved from black and white to color screenplay films. The first work of the director was called “Kiss”, then such films as
"Sleep" "Food," "Dance,"
"Kiss" .
. And in 1968, together with Paul Morrissey Warhol made his first feature film “Flesh”. In June 1968, Andy was badly injured by a gunshot, after which he became a regular parishioner in the nearest church. In addition to being an artist and director, Warhol began producing a rock band and began writing books in the seventies. On February 22, 1987, Andy Warhol died in New York. His brothers buried Andy in Pittsburgh on the grounds of the Catholic Church.
